MAIWO SAS to USB 3.0 Adapter, SAS SATA Hard Drive Enclosure Reader for 2.5 3.5 Inch HDD SSD, 24TB Capacity, External Hard Drive Docking Station with 12V/2A Power, Tool Free

Works with 3.5" SAS drives. Sometimes gets hot - I use a fan. Typically writes to a 12Gbps drive at about 60Mbps over USB 3. I'm hoping to eventually find something faster, cooler, and cheaper... but this works.

This product was excellent. I am an IT guy and work with a lot of different materials, computers, drives, drive form factors, etc. I was a little weary about stepping out into the world of ordering drive cradles for Apple Products, because apple drives are so strangely specific, even varying from model to model in older years. This product truly took the guess work out of it for me. Inside the nice packaging, there were some spare screws if you needed them, a USB-C cable, and of course the enclosure. I can't speak highly enough of the enclosure itself. It's sturdy, appears to be cut precisely, and machined perfectly to store the PCB inside. The included screws worried me at first about holding a drive in place, but they did remarkably well, fitting perfectly within the enclosure. You can tell this product isn't cheaply made, and if you're debating another product over this one...definitely choose this one. As someone who's been in the industry for 15 years...it's easy for me to recognize this as a quality product. The only downfall or shortcoming I could see to this product, was that inside the box there was not a USB-A connector. While USB-C is nice, and generally faster, USB-A is what's needed for most of these older macbooks, so I'd consider reworking that if possible, or just simply adding a USB-A connector into the box alongside USB-C.

First, the materials look good. But it's just got good looks. I got this to pull data from an old mac SSD, which it says it's specifically for. So I don't know why they included an adapter to connect a normal M2 drive. The Apple drive barely fits in the enclosure, so I can't imagine how a regular drive would fit. Second, it doesn't work. I thought I might have gotten a dud; it happens, but the second was also not detected as a device on any computer. The most I got was an unknown device showing up for one computer, but the computer couldn't get any info about what was plugged in. The LED on the drive lit for a split second, but never came back on. Third, as others have noted. IT GETS HOT. I was trying to see if I could get it to work when I got called away from the computer. When I got back to it a couple of minutes later, it was hot enough to be immediately painful to touch. So it not only doesn't work but is also a safety hazard.

Product works great and is easy to use. Reads both SAS and SATA drives in just a few seconds and is very sleek and blends well on my desk. However this was clearly a returned unit and showed signs of wear. Product still works fine but definitely wasn't new.

This device makes it easy to check out SAS drives before you commit them tgo a NAS. I've had it for several months now, tested six drives with it, and it has yet to fail me.

I damaged my Mac Book Air with a hot cup of tea.....and did not hav my files saved to the I-cloud. Lesson learned. However this drive was my fast save. I took the hard drive out, installed it into the enclosure and had all my files within minutes on my new computer. It might seem $56.00 is pricy for a one time use, but it is worth it. A store wanted to charge me $90.00 to look at the hard drive without guarantee and if data recovery, it would hav been $130.00. Also, I can still use the cover and the old hard drive as external storage. So, it really is a long term storage use.....and not loosing my files and bank access data, saved me a ton of time and headaches....so well worth the $56.00.

The enclosure works as stated in the product description. My PCI SSD from the iMac 2013 was recognized immediately. The biggest flaw is the faulty construction of the enclosure. I had to cut off a corner of the SSD so that I could close the lid with the supplied screw (see picture). In general, there is no recess for the SSD to fit into the end of the case. The SSD rests on the edge that is intended for the lid. This leaves a gap, as can be seen in the pictures. Despite this flaw, I'm keeping the enclosure because I looked for it for a long time and couldn't find anything in Germany. I finally found it on Amazon USA and ordered it. The enclosure works as stated in the product description. My PCI SSD from the iMac 2013 was recognized immediately. The biggest flaw is the faulty construction of the enclosure. I had to cut off a corner of the SSD so that I could close the lid with the supplied screw (see picture). In general, there is no recess for the SSD to fit into the end of the case. The SSD rests on the edge that is intended for the lid. This leaves a gap, as can be seen in the pictures. Despite this flaw, I'm keeping the enclosure because I looked for it for a long time and couldn't find anything in Germany. I finally found it on Amazon USA and ordered it. (Translate with deepl.com)

Similar experience to other purchasers and reviewers. I harvested a 1TB SSD from an old MacBook Pro (mid/late 2013). While the pins lined up and the drive inserted well, the enclosure has a clear manufacturing/design error in that the PCB for the drive extends over the metal and screw hole used to attach the bottom of the enclosure. Since that small corner of the PCB didn't carry any circuitry that I could see, I cut down the corner to make it fit. Bottom line, a product like this should require you to break out a Dremel to work as advertised. #fail. Functionality is fine, though - Other Macs recognized the drive and Disk Utility was able to erase, partition, etc. Otherwise, this would have been a return with zero stars.

Muy buen producto, de calidad, muy completo y cuidado. Se los recomiendo al 💯

5Gbps (that's USB 3.0) so read/writes are very slow if you're looking to transfer an entire drive, but there aren't any easy options out there for SAS drives. The dock makes it so convenient on computers that don't have hot-swapabble drive bays.

クラッシュしたMacBookProからSSDを取り出し、エンクロージャー経由で別MacBookProから外部DISKとして起動。 無事に外部SSDとして認識して立ち上がりデータの救出が出来ました。 その後SSDフォーマットして外付けSSDとして使用しています。 熱も放熱されており暑くなっている感じもなく動作しています。

This excellent adapter was just what I wanted as a external enclosure for my Mac drives.The quality of this product is superior,it did the trick ,the only drawback is that it was allitle on the pricey side compared to other similar adapter enclosures

Product working very good. The wire that comes with it is total garbage. You need to use your own quality data wire. The ssd lag if you use the supplied wire. Using this enclosure (without the cover on it for heat) for a Aura X2 Pro ssd.